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Comolli sacked from the bindippers?

monkeybarry said:
you can hardly call them poor signing - both have gone on to be regulars in a team competing for the CL places and are now established internationals

they are not exactly michael ricketts
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I don't think either have been shining lights either. First goal from by Norwich just about sums them both up to me. Dreadful defending. The better we've got, the less exposed the defence is. As soon as the defence becomes exposes, they revert to type.

Wouldn't be sad to see either of them moved on in the Summer.
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
I don't think either have been shining lights either. First goal from by Norwich just about sums them both up to me. Dreadful defending. The better we've got, the less exposed the defence is. As soon as the defence becomes exposes, they revert to type.

Wouldn't be sad to see either of them moved on in the Summer.
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You want Kaboul to move on during the summer?

Leaving us with a back line of Nelsen, Gallas, King, Caulker and Dawson?


Lets sell our best non injury prone defender. That would be a brilliant plan.
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
I don't think either have been shining lights either. First goal from by Norwich just about sums them both up to me. Dreadful defending. The better we've got, the less exposed the defence is. As soon as the defence becomes exposes, they revert to type.

Wouldn't be sad to see either of them moved on in the Summer.
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personally i see a team and squad as just that - it needs some solid players that not "shining lights" (Park and the Nevilles spring to mind), and they have both been pretty much ever present during the good times and the bad.

i also dont think there is a massive long list of players that are upgrades and available, and no players (Messi excluded) is free from mistakes
 
Howard Webb said:
its the DOF position thats gone. Look at the effect getting rid had on spurs, we went flying into the top 5 and now only just fluttering around 4/5 place. Whereas since hes been there theyve gone from 2nd by two points to proper brick.

I would hazard a guess that Comolli was trying to sign a load of promising youngsters this summer and Kenny wants to a) ship out some utter dross and b) get in a crowd pleaser to distract from the downhill slide.
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Errr Que??? They certainly weren't second when they appointed Commolli!!
 
Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has 'great confidence in Kenny Dalglish' following Damien Comolli's sacking

Tom Werner, Liverpool chairman, has said that manager Kenny Dalglish has the "full support" of the board following the news that Damien Comolli, the club's director of football, has been sacked.

Werner was talking to Liverpoolfc.tv after Telegraph Sport broke the news that Comolli had been sacked by the club's owners, Fenway Sports Group, just days before their crucial FA Cup semi-final with Everton.

The position of the Dalglish has come under scrutiny in recent weeks after a woeful run in the league in which they lost five of six matches, ending their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.

Director of football Comolli left the club earlier today but Werner said Dalglish's position was safe.

"We've got great confidence in Kenny," he said. "We feel the team is going to make strides in the future and he enjoys our full support."

Werner also gave his backing to managing director Ian Ayre.

The club have been criticised this season for an apparent lack of leadership after their poor handling of the Luis Su?írez-Patrice Evra race row.

After the departure of Comolli - along with head of sports medicine and sports science Peter Brukner, who also left the club today - Werner was asked whether he envisaged any other changes at senior management level.

"We do not. We believe the senior management is very strong, Ian Ayre is an outstanding managing director," said the American.

"His charge is to raise revenue so that we can put the resources into strengthening our football club.

"We've got great confidence in the other people in football operations, and so the answer is there will be no future changes of significance."

Comolli's departure is significant in that FSG took the positive decision to make a change after seemingly losing faith in the Frenchman's ability to deliver their vision.

The Americans were keen to implement the moneyball theory to transfers which had been so successful at their other high-profile acquisition, the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise.

That essentially meant finding players who were potentially under-achieving or slipping under the radar at other clubs, but who could be signed relatively cheaply, made into a success and therefore have a much higher re-sale value.

However, in the three transfer windows Dalglish has overseen, the owners have forked out the best part of ?ú125 million, with a net spend of about ?ú70 million - which seemed totally at odds with moneyball principles.

The likes of Andy Carroll (?ú35m), Stewart Downing (?ú20m) and Jordan Henderson (?ú16m) have failed to live up to expectation and the best deals have been for Craig Bellamy, who came in on a free but has no re-sale value because of his age, Jose Enrique (?ú6m) and Su?írez (?ú22.8m).

"We've had a strategy that we have agreed on. There was some disconnect on the implementation of that," said Werner, who confirmed they had made the decision to remove Comolli.

"That strategy is a strong one and it will continue.

"We need to build a strong system under the first team. We're hard at work identifying transfer targets and we will be better next year.

"Frankly, we make these decisions with a great deal of care because it's our track record in Boston to give people authority and we've had great success with our manager, who was there for eight years, and our general manager, so we prefer stability.

"But when it's time to act, we need to act. We're coming close to the end of the season and the transfer window for the summer, and we felt it was important to make this change expeditiously.

"We feel there is enough talent on the pitch to win and I would say we certainly have the resources to compete with anybody in football.

"But we're also talking about the future - we have a strategy we need implemented and we felt Damien was probably not the right person to implement that strategy."

That does not mean, however, that the role of director of football has been abandoned entirely.

"We're still confident the structure we've discussed is the right structure," added Werner.

"That doesn't mean we won't look at tweaking it, but we feel a collective group of people making football decisions is healthy.

"The debate is healthy. Part of the reason we made this decision now is because we want to start the process of finding an excellent replacement."

Principal owner John Henry's target at the start of the season was to make it back into the top four but their recent run of poor results scuppered those chances.

"We've been dissatisfied, as most supporters have been, with the results so far," said Werner, of Liverpool's eighth-placed league position.

"We feel we are a club that needs to be perceived as the strongest club in football and we want to get there."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9200717/Liverpool-chairman-Tom-Werner-has-great-confidence-in-Kenny-Dalglish-following-Damien-Comollis-sacking.html
 
The Americans were keen to implement the moneyball theory to transfers which had been so successful at their other high-profile acquisition, the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise.

That essentially meant finding players who were potentially under-achieving or slipping under the radar at other clubs, but who could be signed relatively cheaply, made into a success and therefore have a much higher re-sale value.

However, in the three transfer windows Dalglish has overseen, the owners have forked out the best part of ?ú125 million, with a net spend of about ?ú70 million - which seemed totally at odds with moneyball principles.

The likes of Andy Carroll (?ú35m), Stewart Downing (?ú20m) and Jordan Henderson (?ú16m) have failed to live up to expectation and the best deals have been for Craig Bellamy, who came in on a free but has no re-sale value because of his age, Jose Enrique (?ú6m) and Su?írez (?ú22.8m).

They seem to have got that moneyball thing a bit backwards.
 
I hate comolli more then everyone in football except for campbell. I think it is because i was a massive martin jol fan and if comolli had been any good we really would have kicked on.

Heard that jol wanted petrov and distin and got kaboul and boatang both of whom were to young, he may have been a good scout at arsenal but he was not a director of football when you had to actually build a team and not sign players of the future.

Also if he thinks bentley 16m carroll 35m bent 16m and henderson 20m are good value for money then i wish i owned a corner shop neaar where he lived cos i would hike my prices.
 
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Can't believe people actually want this guy back. Look at him! Doesn't he just have the sort of face you wanna punch?!

He gets ALL of the credit for the good players in our squad now, but he doesn't get any criticism for some of the flops he signed for us, the position we were in the league thanks to him, or the current mess that Liverpool are in. It's easy for Kenny to say that the signings were his once the DOF has left! If people genuinely believe that all of the bad signings at Liverpool were purely down to Dalglish, then perhaps someone would like to explain what Comolli was doing to get himself fired barely a season after joining Liverpool.
 
Jurgen the German said:
He gets ALL of the credit for the good players in our squad now, but he doesn't get any criticism for some of the flops he signed for us, the position we were in the league thanks to him, or the current mess that Liverpool are in. It's easy for Kenny to say that the signings were his once the DOF has left! If people genuinely believe that all of the bad signings at Liverpool were purely down to Dalglish, then perhaps someone would like to explain what Comolli was doing to get himself fired barely a season after joining Liverpool.
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This.

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Among many, many others. No. Just...no.
 
Jurgen the German said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...skills-video-impressed-Liverpools-owners.html
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a. Idiots

b. These doctored videos have been doing the round using American Football and Baseball for years, so I have no idea how these idiots didn't spot this straight out.

c. Aren't these videos greatly damaged when the skill being shown is in theory possible for a professional sportsman to do?? I don't see why a Ôé¼20m footballer couldn't kick 5 balls into 5 buckets from 30 yards. Even if it took him a few goes. In fact, if he can't do that, why not?? Hoddle could! The NFL Fantasy Files gets the balance of believability and impossibility absolutely right:

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It doesn't take much to realise those skills aren't possible, but we still buy the concept. With poor old Stewpot, I'm just left with the feeling that he needs to be digitally enhanced to do anything half decent.
 
Because it's easier to fire the French guy than Lord Kenneth? Also Zokora wasn't a bad signing, not the greatest player but hardly an unmitigated disaster(like Bentley) and atleast we managed to make a profit on him.
 
Spursalot said:
You want Kaboul to move on during the summer?

Leaving us with a back line of Nelsen, Gallas, King, Caulker and Dawson?


Lets sell our best non injury prone defender. That would be a brilliant plan.
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Only if you don't bring other defenders in. Next year I'd like to see Dawson + New Signing as our first choice please. Back up being Caulker, Gallas.
 
Rossi22 said:
Because it's easier to fire the French guy than Lord Kenneth? Also Zokora wasn't a bad signing, not the greatest player but hardly an unmitigated disaster(like Bentley) and atleast we managed to make a profit on him.
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I definitely wouldn't say Zokora was a good signing. Surely us getting good money back for him was down to Levy? I mean this is the same bloke who managed to get ?ú10m from Stoke for Crouch.

The Liverpool owners stated at the start of the season that they "Expected CL football" this season, so they clearly weren't afraid to heap pressure on Dalglish. I'm sure they'll have no qualms abour firing him if he doesn't deliver in the next couple of years.
 
Rossi22 said:
Because it's easier to fire the French guy than Lord Kenneth? Also Zokora wasn't a bad signing, not the greatest player but hardly an unmitigated disaster(like Bentley) and atleast we managed to make a profit on him.
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WTF

to be fair i loved his passion and how he got so nervous when we had a penalty he turned his back because he could not watch it. I think he did this at wembley in the league cup and it is my favourite spurs photo of the last few years.
 
Rossi22 said:
Because it's easier to fire the French guy than Lord Kenneth? Also Zokora wasn't a bad signing, not the greatest player but hardly an unmitigated disaster(like Bentley) and atleast we managed to make a profit on him.
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Don't know why, but never warmed to the guy. Didn't think he was a bad bloke, per se; he seemed fine. Just...he seemed to epitomise our perennial underachievement for me, after all the hype that went into his signing. One good World Cup does not a good player make, I think.
 
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